After finishing the conversation with the two students, Lu Cheng and several people met with Teacher Chen and the leaders of the school again, and communicated with them, Lu Cheng decided to go here first for today's visit and investigation, and he sent Shen Ran out of here first, leaving his subordinates to continue to check the surveillance video.

Lu Cheng glanced at his phone, four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Shall we go to the office now?"

"Hmm." Shen Ran had no objections as usual.

Several subordinates watched Lu Cheng personally send Shen Ran out, and they didn't have time for jealousy and gossip, so they could only continue to work hard.

After Lu Cheng and Shen Ran came out of the institute and sent Shen Ran back, Xiaomei's latest news had already been sent.

"Boss, there is progress ......"

Lu Cheng asked all his subordinates to return to the police station for a meeting.

Everyone returned to the office with the latest information from their own investigation, and immediately after that, an emergency meeting was held in the conference room.

The most important piece of information is surveillance.

Wang Tao did stay in the dormitory that day, and he didn't lie. But at about nine o'clock in the evening, he went downstairs and fetched hot water. Huzi clicked on the backup surveillance video and pressed the pause button.

In the picture, a boy walks alone with a kettle to the area on the first floor where the vertical water heater is placed, and stands there waiting for the unboiled water to boil completely.

He was wearing a dark short-sleeved T-shirt that night, and his style and body shape were similar to the boy next to the girls' dormitory. And this angle looks sharper. ”

"Hmm." Lu Cheng was quite satisfied, "Did he go back after fetching water?" ”

"It was here that he seemed to hear something, and he looked behind the water heater and then walked behind it." Huzi put another period of surveillance. Then he disappeared for a while. This water heater is too large and obscures part of the view. And the back of the water heater is not installed with monitoring, which is a dead end.

Exactly what he heard, or what he saw, we can't check from this video, and there is nothing abnormal from the video.

About half an hour later, he came back to get the kettle and walked back to the dormitory.

In half an hour, he could do a lot of things. However, judging from the surveillance, he has never walked from the back of the water heater to the front, which also means that he has not walked out of the main entrance of the dormitory building.

And there is a small public toilet behind the water heater, and he may have gone to the toilet. I can't say for sure, I have to look at it in conjunction with his confession.

Next to the toilet is a row of iron railings, so you can see the outside of the dormitory, but you can't get out.

Judging by these signs, it seems that he has not been out of the dormitory all night.

However, the half hour when he couldn't be seen coincided with the time when the boy appeared near the girl's dormitory.

The time when the boys appear near the girls' dormitory is around a quarter past nine.

And the time when he disappeared was exactly between nine and half past nine.

This...... It can only be said that from the current monitoring, there is no evidence that he went in and out of the vicinity of the women's dormitory, but there are also places that cannot be explained. He needs to be questioned further, as well as the iron railing downstairs in the dormitory. ”

The analysis of the young police officer Huzi was clear, and Lu Cheng nodded in satisfaction.

"Hmm. Let's take a look at the railing first, and then check if there are any other exits to the men's dormitory. ”

"Yes, Marines."

For several days in a row, Lu Cheng was investigating this case.

It is true that the railing has missing corners because of its age, but not many students pay attention to this, and no one walks through it every day.

After investigation, there are several monitoring blind spots in this school.

But it is almost impossible to get missing girls out of school from these corners.

Except for the abandoned old school gate on one side, which may lead to the outside of the school, the other dead ends do not lead to the outside of the school.

And there are no traces of vandalism or climbing in the old school gate.

When the girl walked out of the dormitory building that day, she walked near the playground and entered an unmonitored area, and she was never seen again.

She couldn't have evaporated from this world, something must have happened.

In addition to being taken outside the school, there is also a possibility that she is still in this school.

Although this idea is a bit bold and a bit crazy, Lu Cheng still took his trained police dogs to the school to conduct a comprehensive search.

After a busy period of time, the police force has collected a lot of clues, all of which still need to be sorted out and analyzed, during which they have also asked Wang Tao several times, but they have not found the most direct and critical evidence.

Half a month later, the news of the theft of underwear came out of the school.

Several girls reported that their clothes hanging on the windowsill and downstairs were missing.

Lu Cheng and all his colleagues didn't expect that at this juncture when the disappearance case had not yet been solved, there would still be people who dared to commit crimes against the wind and steal boldly.

Lu Cheng was furious and ordered his subordinates to solve the theft case first and catch the thief.

Wang Tao is naturally their primary suspect now, and several police officers began to look through the surveillance day and night.

Finally, they found Wang Tao in several surveillance videos.

There is also a video of him climbing the women's dormitory late at night.

It can be determined that he is the suspect who stole the underwear.

Lu Cheng immediately sent police to the school to find Wang Tao and arrest and interrogate him.

Soon, word came from the school.

Huzi found Wang Tao on campus, and when he caught Wang Tao, he did not deny his theft, but just started crying again, asking him anything, but he didn't answer.

I couldn't do it, so I had to take him to the police station first and then ask him slowly.

The police also found some newly stolen underwear in Wang's bedroom. The classmates in the dormitory said that since they knew that he had committed theft, they applied to change the dormitory, and the school punished him and was ready to change the dormitory for him.

Now it should be considered that everyone has stolen goods.

In view of the fact that he had already committed a criminal record before committing this crime, and that the crime was committed again at such a sensitive period, he should be given a more serious administrative punishment this time.

Punishing him for stealing is not the point, Lu Cheng still wants to retry the first instance to see how he relates to the disappearance of the girl in the same class.

Now that he is still closely related to the case, no one can understand why he chose to steal again at such a sensitive time.

Is it a provocation?

When Lu Cheng saw his crying face again, a strong contrast made him feel strange and uncomfortable.

He remembered what Shen Ran had said, Wang Tao seemed to be very timid, would a very timid person choose to steal?

Could it be that he would not only steal, but that he would have to steal at this time?

Lu Cheng suddenly felt that the boy in front of him was not as indisputable as the counselor described, he was not simple.

Just as Lu Cheng was about to ask the boy personally, his mobile phone rang.

It's Shen Ran.

It was rare for Shen Ran to take the initiative to call him, and it happened that he was still thinking of him just now, and Lu Cheng's complicated mood instantly became much clearer.

"Hey. I am Shen ......" Shen Ran rarely takes the initiative to contact others, and he is not used to taking the initiative to say the first sentence.

"Shen Ran, I know." Lu Cheng quickly picked up his words, "I haven't been in touch for a long time, I've been busy all this time, are you okay?" ”

Lu Cheng's greetings made the conversation natural.

Shen Ran continued his words and said, "Well, it's good. I just, uh, I happened to pass by that school in the afternoon, and I saw some reporters around the door, and I knew that you had been working on that case lately, and I thought there should have been progress, so I went in and took a look, and I heard that you arrested Wang Tao, and he committed theft again.

Honestly, this thing sounds weird.

Just then, I went to the place where you had taken him...... There was an open space near the boys' dormitory, and I stood there for a while. ”

From the first sentence Shen Ran said, Lu Cheng almost didn't restrain his urge to interrupt him.

Judging from Lu Cheng's work experience in the past few years, what Shen Ran said was a little less logical.

The place where Shen Ran lives is quite far away from this school, and it is completely in two directions, with Shen Ran's usual living and life trajectory, it is unlikely that he will pass by this school.

However, Lu Cheng wanted to listen to him, so he didn't immediately correct his logical error in this detail just now.

But the more Lu Cheng listened, the more he felt that something was wrong.

Shen Ran not only happened to pass by this school, but also walked into the school, and just walked to the place where we arrested people......

Is he looking into the case?

Help me check?

The logic in Lu Cheng's heart began to reason automatically.

First of all, he said that he knew that I had been looking into this case lately, second, that he was passing by this place for no reason, and most importantly, he was a man who cherished his time and that there was no reason for him to run into this weird school and stay so long.

Shen Ran does not have a position in the police force, although he is a consultant hired by them, but the time he usually invests is not comparable to that of full-time police officers.

In other words, as long as Lu Cheng didn't invite him, he didn't need to take the initiative to do anything.

So now two conclusions have been introduced, that is, Shen Ran is actively investigating this case, and that he is doing this for some reason.

If you don't pay him the full salary, it can't be because of money, right?

That's because of people.

Lu Cheng thought about it for a while, if it was because of people, it couldn't be an inconsequential child like the fat man Xiao Mei Dingyi, it could only be him.

It should be, right?

Suddenly, he felt a flutter in his heart.

He was immersed in smooth logic, and he didn't hear what Shen Ran said.

Shen Ran only thought that he was listening to himself carefully, so he continued: "There is a tree there, I walked to the tree and stood next to it for a while, I suddenly felt that the place was where I was standing, and someone had stood just now. Moreover, it has been standing for a long time. ”

It wasn't until Shen Ran said these words that Lu Cheng's attention was retracted.

Hearing it, Shen Ran himself felt confused.

"What? You feel someone standing in the place where you're standing. Lu Cheng understood as soon as he heard it, this irrational intuition came from Shen Ran's "sixth sense", which was brought about by his super perceptual ability.

"What does that mean?" Lu Cheng asked.

"I can't tell. However, it can be speculated that the location of this tree is relatively remote in this clearing, and in the corner, no one normally passes by the side of this tree, especially from behind. And what I sensed was that someone had been standing here for a long time. If it's not that my feelings are wrong, it's that someone has done something weird.

And I heard that you just took Wang Tao here. ”

"You mean...... Someone hid behind a tree and watched for a long time? Lu Cheng followed his words and speculated, "You mean, someone watched Wang Tao being arrested?" ”